Interest on overdue tax R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, Ex Parte Barker And Another (1994) (QBD (Latham J) 22.6.94.) Summary: Date on which interest on unpaid tax begins to accrue is not altered by subsequent events. Application for judicial review of assessment to tax charging interest from the date of an original assessment notwithstanding later […]
Simon Rogers reports A new supplier has joined the burgeoning barristers’ IT market. Pimcroft Legal Software plans to launch its Chambers Management System in October at the Bar Conference. Run by programmer Christian Thomas and ex-chief clerk Perry Coysh, the new package is Windows-based and designed to run on 486 SX PCs. It will run […]
Management Interface Ltd has scored two legal goals with the sales of systems to firms across the country. Northern firm Dickson Child Green & Greensmith has taken on a WordPerfect network, while Brand & Co of Surrey has opted for an AlphaLAW accounts, time recording and trusts set-up, following advice from Stoy Hayward’s Andrew Levison.
Wordperfect has announced Expressfax 3.0, an integrated fax, data and OCR product for the Macintosh, which allows users to send and forward faxes. The product will cost between u29 and u79.
The recent media coverage of the Gloucester investigations and the “baby Abbie” case questions the limits of trial and pre-trial reporting and the increasing difficulty of identifying the line between fair public comment and contempt. This is not an issue just for the press, the police and the prospective witness. There is great public appetite […]
Cardiff firm Dolmans has opted for the ACE Infinity package to provide its practice management system. The initial phase of the contract will be worth u55,000 and the network will expand to incorporate the firm’s 100 staff.
KARINA MAY ALLAN, 36, admitted 1982, practised as Allan & Co, London N22, struck off and ordered to pay u1,980 costs. Allegations substantiated she failed to keep books correctly, wrongly drew and used client money for her own purposes, failed to deliver accountant’s report on time, acted for both sides in property transaction where there […]
Watson Farley & Williams has bought an Elite billing system. The firm has opted for the US software which includes nominal ledger, purchase ledger, conflict of interest, marketing and collections modules. The firm will set up on-line access to the system for lawyers in its six overseas offices. New York will be the first office […]
Bayerische Hypotheken Bank was advised by Herbert Smith in the issue of A$75 million 8.75 per cent European medium term notes due 1997. Lead manager Hambro Bank was advised by Allen & Overy.
The Hartstone Group was advised by Travers Smith Brathwaite on its rights issue to raise £30 million
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Judicial review is sought of the decision of Torquay justices to dismiss charges of wilful obstruction by two Torquay shopkeepers who displayed goods on the pavement. Magistrates decided that because the goods intruded into just five per cent of the 15m wide street, it did not constitute an obstruction under the 1980 Highways Act.